Re: A very narrow-minded bureaucratic point of view
... by someone who traveled abroad once or twice in his lifetime (as most Americans do because their country is a continent) ...
Not to quibble with your main point, but the country of the United States of America is not a continent. It shares the continent of North America with 22 other counties and dependent territories of 4 european countries.
The USA is also not the largest country on the continent (Canada is), although it is the the most populous and the richest.
As far as I know, the only country in the world which has a content to itself is Australia.
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